php spellchecker

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Hi there,

I've just searched for 40 minutes (39 longer than normal) for some php spellchecker code that works exactly like the one in this text box (underlining misspelled words in red) as I type. Can anyone point me in the direction of one? Please?

Dec 7 '07 #1

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RuthC

Hi there,

I've just searched for 40 minutes (39 longer than normal) for some php spellchecker code that works exactly like the one in this text box (underlining misspelled words in red) as I type. Can anyone point me in the direction of one? Please?

Hi beary,
Try this..
http://chxo.com/scripts/spellcheck.php?showsource=1#source

Dec 7 '07 #2

beary

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Hi beary,
Try this..
http://chxo.com/scripts/spellcheck.php?showsource=1#source

Um, RuthC, what can I say, I am seriously in your debt! Thankyou. I found this one very early on in my searches, but read the stuff about aspell and assumed my server (at work where I need this) wouldn't have the requirements. But I've uploaded it and it all seems to work. You're a gem. Thanks again.

Dec 7 '07 #3

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However, I've just discovered that it only seems to work on FF, not IE6. Surely this can't be right? Were you aware of this limitation? I've tested it on the same page using FF and IE6. Firefox, no problems. IE6, nothing works....

Dec 7 '07 #4

beary

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OK. Well is anyone out there able to explain why this code does not work in IE6? Thanks.

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<?php

// 2002-10-10 by Chris Snyder

// this script uses aspell, but not the internal php spelling functions which are somewhat crippled by only being able to check words, not whole documents (as of ~php 4.2.2)

// requires that aspell be installed and working at /usr/local/bin/aspell -- see http://aspell.sourceforge.net/
 
// 2003-01-19 -- updated tempfile to use PHP's tempfile creation mech., also bumped year

// 2003-01-24 -- fixed bug that caused improper handling of words with no suggested corrections (thanks, Dekeyzer Stephane!)

// 2003-05-06 -- fixed a bug causing bad things to happen when multiple instances of incorrect words were found on any given line  (thanks, Dallas Brown!)

//             -- also fixed script so that $opener and $closer work for custom labeling of errors (thanks again, Dallas Brown!)
 
/*

spellcheck.php -- aspell-based spellchecker implemented in PHP

Copyright (C) 2003 by Chris Snyder (csnyder@chxo.com)
 
This program is free software; you can redistribute it and/or

modify it under the terms of the GNU General Public License

as published by the Free Software Foundation; either version 2

of the License, or (at your option) any later version.
 
This program is distributed in the hope that it will be useful,

but WITHOUT ANY WARRANTY; without even the implied warranty of

MERCHANTABILITY or FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE.  See the

GNU General Public License for more details.
 
You should have received a copy of the GNU General Public License

along with this program; if not, write to the Free Software

Foundation, Inc., 59 Temple Place - Suite 330, Boston, MA  02111-1307, USA.

*/
 
$text= $_POST['text'];

$showsource= $_GET['showsource'];
 
//

// file paths and the aspell command have moved down below line 58

//
 
// show source code part I

if ($showsource) $sourceinfo= "Script: $_SERVER[SCRIPT_FILENAME] ( <a href='#source'>source code</a> )";

else $sourceinfo= "<a href='$_SERVER[SCRIPT_NAME]?showsource=1#source'>show PHP source code</a>";

if (trim($text)!="") {

    $showsource= 0;

    $sourceinfo= "";

    }
 
print "<html>

<head>

<title>$uripath</title>

<style type='text/css'>

    body { font-family: Verdana, Geneva, sans-serif; font-size: 12px; line-height: 18px; background-color: #ffffdd;}

    table { font-family: Verdana, Geneva, sans-serif; font-size: 12px; }

    .heading { font-size: 12px; font-weight: bold; background-color: #666677; color: #dddddd; border: 1px; border-style: solid; }

    .oddrow { background-color: #ffffff; }

    .evenrow { background-color: #eeffee; }

</style>

</head>

<body>

<h1>Spell Check Some Text</h1>

<p>$sourceinfo</p>";
 
// if text+check is supplied, first open and create $temptext, then spell check

if (trim($text)!="" && ($_POST['submit']=="check" || $_POST['submit']=="re-check")) {
 
    // HERE'S WHERE YOU MIGHT NEED TO CHANGE FILE PATHS, etc.

    //

    // set up some vars and create a tempfile

    // tempnam() is a PHP function that creates a unique tempfile in the specified path,

    //    with the specified prefix

    $temptext= tempnam("/tmp", "spelltext");
 
    // if you spellcheck alot of HTML, add the -H flag to aspell to put it in SGML mode

    $aspellcommand= "cat $temptext | /usr/local/bin/aspell -a";
 
    // these three determine how errors are flagged ($indicator is a description of what $opener and $closer do)

    $indicator= "bold";

    $opener= "<b>";

    $closer= "</b>";

    //

    // END OF CONFIGURATION
 
    if ($fd=fopen($temptext,"w")) {

        $textarray= explode("\n",$text);

        fwrite($fd,"!\n");

        foreach($textarray as $key=>$value) {

            // adding the carat to each line prevents the use of aspell commands within the text...

            fwrite($fd,"^$value\n");

            }

        fclose($fd);
 
        // next create tempdict and temprepl (skipping for now...)
 
        // next run aspell

        $return= shell_exec($aspellcommand);
 
    // now unlink that tempfile

    $ureturn= unlink($temptext);
 
        //next parse $return and $text line by line, eh?

        $returnarray= explode("\n",$return);

        $returnlines= count($returnarray);

        $textlines= count($textarray);
 
        //print "text has $textlines lines and return has $returnlines lines.";

        $lineindex= -1;

        $poscorrect= 0;

        $counter= 0;

        foreach($returnarray as $key=>$value) {

            // if there is a correction here, processes it, else move the $textarray pointer to the next line

            if (substr($value,0,1)=="&") {

                //print "Line $lineindex correction:".$value."<br>";

                $correction= explode(" ",$value);

                $word= $correction[1];

                $absposition= substr($correction[3],0,-1)-1;

                $position= $absposition+$poscorrect;

                $niceposition= $lineindex.",".$absposition;

                $suggstart= strpos($value,":")+2;

                $suggestions= substr($value,$suggstart);

                $suggestionarray= explode(", ",$suggestions);

                //print "I found <b>$word</b> at $position. Will suggest $suggestions.<br>";
 
                // highlight in text

                $beforeword= substr($textarray[$lineindex],0,$position);

                $afterword= substr($textarray[$lineindex],$position+strlen($word));

                $textarray[$lineindex]= $beforeword."$opener$word$closer".$afterword;
 
                // kludge for multiple words in one line ("<b></b>" adds 7 chars to subsequent positions, for instance)

                $poscorrect= $poscorrect+strlen("$opener$closer");
 
                // build the correction form

                $counter= $counter+1;

                $formbody.= "<tr>

                                <td align='right'>$word</td>

                                <td>

                                    <input type='hidden' name='position$counter' value='$niceposition'>

                                    <input type='hidden' name='incorrect$counter' value=\"$word\">

                                    <select name='suggest$counter' onChange=\"document.corrector.correct$counter.value=this.value;\">

                                    <option value=\"$word\" selected>$word (as-is)</option>

                                    ";

                foreach ($suggestionarray as $key=>$value) {

                    $formbody.= "<option value=\"$value\">$value</option>

                                ";

                    }

                $inputlen= strlen($word)+5;

                $formbody.= "<option value=''>custom:</option>

                                    </select>

                                    <input type='text' name='correct$counter' value=\"$word\" size='$inputlen'>

                                </td>

                              </tr>";

                }
 
            elseif (substr($value,0,1)=="#") {

                //print "Line $lineindex unknown:".$value."<br>";

                $correction= explode(" ",$value);

                $word= $correction[1];

                $absposition= $correction[2] - 1;

                $position= $absposition+$poscorrect;

                $niceposition= $lineindex.",".$absposition;

                $suggestions= "no suggestions";

                $suggestionarray= explode(", ",$suggestions);

                //print "I found <b>$word</b> at $position. Will suggest $suggestions.<br>";
 
                // highlight in text

                $beforeword= substr($textarray[$lineindex],0,$position);

                $afterword= substr($textarray[$lineindex],$position+strlen($word));

                $textarray[$lineindex]= $beforeword."$opener$word$closer".$afterword;
 
                // kludge for multiple words in one line ("<b></b>" adds 7 chars to subsequent positions)

                $poscorrect= $poscorrect+strlen("$opener$closer");
 
                // build the correction form

                $counter= $counter+1;

                $formbody.= "<tr>

                                <td align='right'>$word</td>

                                <td>

                                    <input type='hidden' name='position$counter' value='$niceposition'>

                                    <input type='hidden' name='incorrect$counter' value=\"$word\">

                                    <select name='suggest$counter' onChange=\"document.corrector.correct$counter.value=this.value;\">

                                    <option value=\"$word\" selected>$word (as-is)</option>

                                    ";

                $inputlen= strlen($word)+3;

                $formbody.= "<option value=''>custom:</option>

                                    </select>

                                    <input type='text' name='correct$counter' value=\"$word\" size='$inputlen'>

                                </td>

                              </tr>";

                }
 
            else {

                //print "Done with line $lineindex, next line...<br><br>";

                $poscorrect=0;

                $lineindex= $lineindex+1;

                }

            }

        }

    print "<hr>Uncorrected Text (potential errors in $opener$indicator$closer):<blockquote>";

    foreach ($textarray as $key=>$value) {

        print $value."<br>";

        }

    print "</b><!-- comment catcher --></blockquote>";
 
    $htmltext= htmlentities($text);

    if ($formbody=="") $formbody= "<tr><td>&nbsp;</td><td><br><b>No errors!</b><br>Click 'correct' to continue with text unchanged.<br>&nbsp;</td></tr>";

    print "<hr><h3>Correction form:</h3>

    <form name='corrector' action='spellcheck.php' method='post'>

    <input type='hidden' name='text' value=\"$htmltext\">

    <table>

    $formbody

    <tr>

      <td>&nbsp;</td>

      <td><input type='submit' name='submit' value='correct'>

          <input type='reset' name='reset' value='reset form'>

      </td>

    </tr>

    </table>

    </form>";
 
    //print "<hr>Return:".nl2br($return);

    }
 
// or if text+correct is specified, make the indicated corrections

elseif (trim($text)!="" && $_POST['submit']=="correct") {

    $textarray= explode("\n",$text);
 
    $index= 1;

    $lastlineindex= 0;

    $poscorrect= 0;
 
    // look through list of positions and make corrections

    while (isset($_POST["position$index"])) {

        $positionarray= explode(",",$_POST["position$index"]);

        $lineindex= $positionarray[0];

        $absposition= $positionarray[1];
 
        if ($lastlineindex==$lineindex) {

            $position= $absposition+$poscorrect;

            }

        else {

            $poscorrect= 0;

            $position= $absposition;

            }

        $lastlineindex= $lineindex;   

        $correct= $_POST["correct$index"];

        $incorrect= $_POST["incorrect$index"];

        //print "Found correction at $lineindex,$absposition. Replacing ";
 
        $before= substr($textarray[$lineindex],0,$position);

        $after= substr($textarray[$lineindex],$position+strlen($incorrect));

        $textarray[$lineindex]= $before.$correct.$after;
 
        $poscorrect= (strlen($correct)-strlen($incorrect))+$poscorrect;

        //print "Position correction is now $poscorrect.<br>";

        $index= $index+1;

        }
 
    //print "Original text:<br>";

    //print nl2br($text);

    //print "<hr>";
 
    foreach ($textarray as $key=>$value) {

        $newtext.=$value;

        }

    print "

    <form action='spellcheck.php' method='post'>

        <h3>Your Corrected Text:</h3><br>

        <textarea name='text' cols='60' rows='10'>$newtext</textarea><br>

        <input type='submit' name='submit' value='re-check'> | <a href='spellcheck.php'>Clear/Restart</a> | <a href='spellcheck.php?showsource=1#source'>Show Source</a>

    </form>";

    }
 
// otherwise, show the initial form

else {

    print "

    <form action='spellcheck.php' method='post'>

        Text to Check:<br>

        <textarea name='text' cols='60' rows='10'>$newtext</textarea><br>

        <input type='submit' name='submit' value='check'>

    </form>";

    }
 
// show source code part II

if ($showsource) {

    print "<hr><a name='source'> </a><h1>PHP Source:</h1>";

    $void= show_source($_SERVER['SCRIPT_FILENAME']);

    }
 
print "

<hr>

spellcheck.php Copyright (C) 2003 by Chris Snyder<br>

This program comes with ABSOLUTELY NO WARRANTY.  This is free software, and you are welcome

to redistribute it under certain conditions; please refer to the

<a href='http://www.gnu.org/licenses/gpl.html'>GNU General Public License</a> for details.

</body>

</html>";

?>

Dec 9 '07 #5

beary

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OK. Well is anyone out there able to explain why this code (link below) does not work in IE6? Thanks.

http://chxo.com/scripts/spellcheck.php?showsource=1#source

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